Sentences with phrase «into legal operations»

With Passport Matter Management and Legal Spend Management, AkzoNobel will be able to introduce more strategic insight and process into its legal operations.

Not exact matches

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

The challenge turns what had been a war of words into a legal battle, with legislators resisting the Cuomo - created Commission's authority to probe the inner workings of their governmental and political operations.

Creation and destruction of social and environmental capital arising from production operations are not factored into corporate decision making unless mandated by government laws and regulations — or when communities suffering social and environmental costs threaten legal or physical action.

The «Jota» was a factory modification kit designed to convert the race - oriented SE30 into an actual circuit racer, albeit at the cost of street - legal operation.

But while Amazon pursues its legal options into this multi-million dollar book - spitting operation, they'll be hard pressed to find out that he did anything that was actually criminal.

That Gleick would forge a two page memo, risk exposing himself to much more legal and professional problems, risk the operation being thrown into chaos (because of course Hl is going to deny it), and then place himself in the center of the memo.

In a statement, Canada - based SkyPower said that of the three 50MW solar projects it was also awarded in 2015, one has entered into commercial operation, but the other two 50MW projects are also embroiled in legal wrangles with MPPMCL.

Renewable energy developers SkyPower and Renew Power are involved in legal disputes with the distribution company (Discom) of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh over solar project deadlines and PPAs, while SkyPower has also claimed to have successfully brought into operation its first ever project in the state.

LAS VEGAS: Nearly three - quarters of legal operations leaders are lawyers who have successfully transformed their skillset and 59 per cent are held by women, a new study into the role has revealed.

Nearly three - quarters of legal operations leaders are lawyers who have successfully transformed their skillset and 59 per cent are held by women, a new study into the role has revealed.

I got caught up in the excitement, and I am keenly interested to watch how the role of legal operations evolves and more specifically how technology is utilized and assimilated into that position.

CLOC offers scholarships to law students who are demonstrating a legal operations mindset and putting it into practice.

The reality is that no client is going to give their external law firms a blank cheque, but what is manifestly obvious from our anecdotal evidence and an increasing body of empirical evidence is that price sensitivity diminishes in inverse proportion to the reputation of a legal team, the firm's demonstrable sector focus and equally demonstrable intimate insight into the client's business operations and commercial objectives.

Contracts can prevent disputes before they turn into problems, define relationships and boundaries to make daily life easier, and comply with the law so your business stays legitimate and legal every day it's in operation.

The Law Society Gazette states that the legal world has been underwhelmed by LDPs, as only 14 came into operation on 31 March.

Legal department operations (LDO) is an emerging profession no longer, rather, it's a functional business area that's come into its own.

The combination of the two, Mitratech says, will create an end - to - end platform that will transform legal operations into a center of innovation and excellence.

Heathrow Airport Holdings is set to kick off a tender process to appoint external legal advisers, after it was cleared to push ahead with plans to bring the third runway at Heathrow Airport into operation.

Bring a legal operations function into your legal department.

Dewey & LeBoeuf has filed for bankruptcy, with the firm's UK operations simultaneously placed into administration, confirming the world's largest ever legal failure, reports The Am Law Daily.

The combination of the two, Mitratech says, will create an end - to - end platform that will transform legal operations into -LSB-...]

The COO of Legal is now the person making decisions on law firm selection along with procurement — again using clear metrics that dive more deeply into the law firm operations than ever before.

As the real estate market needs great liquidity and, in the case of the corporations, they may not remain with the Bitcoins and need to convert them into currency, it may be, in addition to the knowledge of the business that goes beyond the legal spectrum, highlighting that it is needed to understand the operation of the real estate industry to, in fact, be an aggregating agent of innovative and effective solutions.

Using advanced platform technology, ELM Solutions helps clients consolidate all essential legal, risk, compliance, and business processes into a single, extensible software system that enables data analytics to extract a more holistic view of their legal operation and risk exposure, providing insights that enable better legal decisions and enterprise - wide risk mitigation.

Do we want to expand that model by having thousands of small firms consolidated into giant franchise operations, the only difference being that individual clients for the most part can not deduct their legal expenses?

A few months ago an article published on this blog discussed legal department operations (LDO) as a functional business area that's come into its own,...

Rocket Matter, continuing to rapidly expand its operations as a provider of web - based legal software, has moved into a new, larger corporate headquarters.

When operations are carefully examined, a GC might find that they do not have a truly holistic view into or consistent control of the legal landscape.

The Access Legal Care «system» is based on 12 key components: 1) be profitable for the attorneys and legal - services providers; 2) apply the Pareto principle — focus on the 20 % of all legal services that 80 % of lower - and moderate - income people will likely ever need; then prune / refer - out those that are high - complexity / high - dollar (too risky) and contingency cases (already affordable); 3) process - map the remaining services into individual steps; 4) functionally - decompose each process step to the lowest - cost provider who can perform the step legally and with excellence; 5) streamline processes with Six Sigma and manufacturing principles; 6) centralize operations for economies of scale; 7) collaborate and out - source to expand reach; 8) leverage technology to minimize costs and maximize productivity; 9) make affordable with both terms and price; 10) generate high demand, high - volume; 11) develop multiple revenue streams; and 12) package up the system and re-sell it to other law firms and cliLegal Care «system» is based on 12 key components: 1) be profitable for the attorneys and legal - services providers; 2) apply the Pareto principle — focus on the 20 % of all legal services that 80 % of lower - and moderate - income people will likely ever need; then prune / refer - out those that are high - complexity / high - dollar (too risky) and contingency cases (already affordable); 3) process - map the remaining services into individual steps; 4) functionally - decompose each process step to the lowest - cost provider who can perform the step legally and with excellence; 5) streamline processes with Six Sigma and manufacturing principles; 6) centralize operations for economies of scale; 7) collaborate and out - source to expand reach; 8) leverage technology to minimize costs and maximize productivity; 9) make affordable with both terms and price; 10) generate high demand, high - volume; 11) develop multiple revenue streams; and 12) package up the system and re-sell it to other law firms and clilegal - services providers; 2) apply the Pareto principle — focus on the 20 % of all legal services that 80 % of lower - and moderate - income people will likely ever need; then prune / refer - out those that are high - complexity / high - dollar (too risky) and contingency cases (already affordable); 3) process - map the remaining services into individual steps; 4) functionally - decompose each process step to the lowest - cost provider who can perform the step legally and with excellence; 5) streamline processes with Six Sigma and manufacturing principles; 6) centralize operations for economies of scale; 7) collaborate and out - source to expand reach; 8) leverage technology to minimize costs and maximize productivity; 9) make affordable with both terms and price; 10) generate high demand, high - volume; 11) develop multiple revenue streams; and 12) package up the system and re-sell it to other law firms and clilegal services that 80 % of lower - and moderate - income people will likely ever need; then prune / refer - out those that are high - complexity / high - dollar (too risky) and contingency cases (already affordable); 3) process - map the remaining services into individual steps; 4) functionally - decompose each process step to the lowest - cost provider who can perform the step legally and with excellence; 5) streamline processes with Six Sigma and manufacturing principles; 6) centralize operations for economies of scale; 7) collaborate and out - source to expand reach; 8) leverage technology to minimize costs and maximize productivity; 9) make affordable with both terms and price; 10) generate high demand, high - volume; 11) develop multiple revenue streams; and 12) package up the system and re-sell it to other law firms and clinics.

A few months ago an article published on this blog discussed legal department operations (LDO) as a functional business area that's come into its own, and how the expanded and growing role and responsibilities of LDO professionals is clearly here to stay.

Legal operations professionals are often hired to solve one problem in a legal department, but the role quickly evolves into working with legal department leadership (whether a General Counsel or Chief Legal Officer) to address the full range of issues facing the company's legal department's problems that don't involve practicingLegal operations professionals are often hired to solve one problem in a legal department, but the role quickly evolves into working with legal department leadership (whether a General Counsel or Chief Legal Officer) to address the full range of issues facing the company's legal department's problems that don't involve practicinglegal department, but the role quickly evolves into working with legal department leadership (whether a General Counsel or Chief Legal Officer) to address the full range of issues facing the company's legal department's problems that don't involve practicinglegal department leadership (whether a General Counsel or Chief Legal Officer) to address the full range of issues facing the company's legal department's problems that don't involve practicingLegal Officer) to address the full range of issues facing the company's legal department's problems that don't involve practicinglegal department's problems that don't involve practicing law.

Labor and employment laws affect the entire legal relationship between employers and employees, beginning with the initial hiring process and expanding into every facet of daily operations, including job descriptions, wages, promotions, reviews, terminations, benefits, mergers and acquisitions, as well as the successful resolution of disputes pertaining to unfair labor practices and discrimination.

Hyperion also underscored some key advantages of the company, «In a direct challenge to the prevailing matter management model, which Onit believes encumbers companies with outsize investments in large applications with features they may not want and won't use, Onit presents a familiar app - based approach to legal operations management by breaking up ELM into individual task - based solutions and processes.»

In its detailed evaluation of Onit, Hyperion underscored some key advantages of the company, «In a direct challenge to the prevailing matter management model, which Onit believes encumbers companies with outsize investments in large applications with features they may not want and won't use, Onit presents a familiar app - based approach to legal operations management by breaking up ELM into individual task - based solutions and processes.»

By having a system - driven approach, companies can get a deeper level of insight into their spend, and these are insights that can inform smarter decision - making, including more intelligent cost forecasting, more informed decisions about managing your panels and other aspects of your legal operations.

BENEFITS: • Improves control over law firm bill review process, including ability to identify trends and gain deeper visibility into law firm spending • Achieves 100 % paperless billing process with law firms, which supports corporate objective of environmental sustainability in business operations • Enables easy collaboration with colleagues inside the company, regardless of where they are located and whether they are travelling • Standardized coding and processing of law firm invoices produces tremendous efficiency gains for legal department • Robust reporting tools allow quick analysis of monthly legal budget across practice areas, easy tracking of matters and more precise assessment of spending by law firm

By following these recommendations for selecting a management system, you can transform your university or college legal department into a more efficient and organized operation.

As we head into the new year, what advice would you offer to general counsel or legal operations managers who want to improve their legal spend programs?

Chicago, IL and Dayton, OH — Dec. 11, 2013 — Nextpoint http://www.nextpoint.com/, a leading provider of litigation support services, and Curo Legal https://curolegal.com, a practice operations firm focused on creating greater efficiencies and profitability for law firms, announced today that they have entered into a strategic partnership to provide cost - efficient, technology - based trial support for law...

Gowling WLG is embarking on a pilot project to introduce Loom's legal analytics system into their operations.

Arrangement benefits clients, hiring attorneys and freelance attorneys Portland, ME and Dayton, OH — March 24, 2014 — Custom Counsel http://customcounsel.com/, a leading provider of freelance attorneys, and Curo Legal https://curolegal.com, a practice operations firm focused on creating greater efficiencies and profitability for law firms, announced today that they have entered into a strategic partnership...

In that capacity, Mark transformed small local brands into national chain operations and worked to assist growing international businesses with their legal franchise work, their core branding and their operational workflows.

While the toolkit serves as an excellent roadmap for a legal operations career, it also offers tremendous insight into the legal - service delivery skills that clients value.

But it's likely not the old Eagan v. Dayton tussle, but a smart, well funded and lawyer - focussed commercial operation with a century of insight into legal information, pitted against the Google behemoth and the lure of free information.

Rather, law firms should be asking what is the best way to partner with clients to solve legal problems taking into consideration possible resources outside the scope of the law firm's operations — including legal process outsourcing providers.For example, does it make sense to staff a file with juniors when work can be outsourced to an alternate legal services provider at half the cost?

As in - house legal teams assume greater responsibility, legal operations professionals are seeking faster ways to improve transparency into their data.

During his tenure at DOJ, he successfully transformed two legal divisions into highly effective and efficient operations.

If we can not attract additional, qualified attorneys into our legal plan network to service the needs of our legal plan subscribers, we may not be able grow our legal plan subscription business effectively and our business, revenues, results of operations and future prospects may be adversely affected.

With a strong background in IT and telecommunications law, he has brought his expertise to software multinational Avira, joining in 2008 as a legal counsel and working up the ranks to his promotion into the vice president operations role in 2012, where he led the finance and human resources department of Avira's US subsidiary.